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Criterion
Paper illustration of the Lightning Decision Jam working structure.
Facilitation
Decision Jam
Paper illustration for Smoke Test.
Product Discovery
Smoke Test
Paper illustration of a calm four-quadrant Assumption Map with hypothesis cards and emphasis on important assumptions with little evidence.
Product Discovery
Assumption Mapping
A/B Testing workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Growth
A/B Testing
Purposedifferent
When a decision is stuck, Decision Jam loosens the knot through structured separation of problem, idea, and selection. The format creates movement without jumping prematurely at the first seemingly elegant answer.When demand only needs to be roughly verified, it tests interest with minimal effort. It measures whether people would take a next step at all.When assumptions still sit unordered in the room, it weighs uncertainty against leverage. It makes visible which hypotheses should be checked first.When two variants compete, discussions quickly decide by taste rather than effect. A/B Testing checks behavior under controlled conditions and separates real improvement from chance or expectation effects.
Complexitydifferent
LowLowMediumHigh
Timedifferent
60-90 min1-5 Tage45-60 min1-4 Wochen
Participantsdifferent
4-10Nutzertraffic2-81-6
Formatdifferent
WorkshopAsyncWorkshop + asyncAsync
Outputdifferent
Problem Cluster, Prioritized Challenge, ExperimentInterest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning NoteAssumption map, Test backlog, Risk rankingExperiment results, Decision log, Learning summary
Tagsno overlap
FacilitationDecisionProblem solvingWorkshop
ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth
AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation
ExperimentsGrowthAnalyticsValidation
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